Sergio Mendoza

Los Dias de la Crescent 2013: The Best Photos Of Day 1 and Day 2

Los Dias de la Crescent 2013 was defined by what's local -- the music, the beer, the food, the fans. This year's schedule looked like a tightened-up version of last year's format -- and it somehow found a way to bring "Stairway to Heaven" into a celebration of Arizona music in the process. Day 1 br ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Weekend

One brand-new way to validate your musical tastes in front of your friends: Tell them that you were a fan of Huey Lewis and the News before he put on a raincoat and murdered Weird Al Yankovic with an axe. Murdering Weird Al is a classic sell-out move, but you can go see him in Chandler on Saturday ... More >>

Los Dias de la Crescent Brings the Scenes Together

Fayuca Now Sounds Like One Thing: Fayuca

Los Dias de la Crescent Lineup Announced: Get Ready for Latin Sounds and Rock/Pop Tributes

Good news for those who dug last year's locally focused Los Dias De La Crescent event: it's coming back for a second round. Crescent czar Charlie Levy sent out an e-mail blast Thursday night trumpeting the lineup for this year's version of the two-night concert, and just like some of the best seque ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows in Phoenix This Week

It's Monday, and that means that the rotting corpse of the weekend has been trampled on and desecrated by another dadgum work week. But never fear -- the resistance is growing. You can recreate the carefree feelings of the weekend every night this week by attending our Top Five Must-See Shows This W ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week in Phoenix

Yeah, yeah, yeah...we get it. Mondays suck (we've read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest -- our top five must-see shows this week.

Jon Rauhouse Sets Aside his Steel Guitar on New EP

Los Dias de la Crescent Day Two With Snow Songs, Minibosses, Flamenco Por la Vida and More

LOS DIAS DE LA CRESCENT DAY TWO @ CRESCENT BALLROOM | 8/18/12 The party continued to rock local on night two of Los Dias de la Crescent, adding the Latin flair that's inescapable in Arizona. Saturday night's set showed that the flag placement, Chicano-inspired art and official state color hues wer ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions where to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

Viva Crescent: Venue Celebrates an Enduring Scene

Grow with the Flow

Jose Garces, What Are You Listening To?

​Jose GarcesThe Iron Chef and James Beard award-winning chef is executive chef of Distrito, Old Town Whiskey and Garces Trading Co. To-Go at The Saguaro Hotel. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? I have Sirius/XM in my car, and ... More >>

Gabriel Sullivan and Taraf de Tucson Go Global

Reggae Punk Rock Outfit Fayuca Signs With Phoenix-Based Fervor Records

​Phoenix-based Fervor Records is already home to local "futurepop" group Super Stereo and NYC's Tarik NuClothes, as well as the owners of a massive vintage music record catalog that provides music for some of today's best television shows. Earlier this week the company announced the addition ... More >>

Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta at Crescent Ballroom, 10/21/11

Anthony Sandoval​Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta Crescent Ballroom Friday, October 21 The only thing missing from the Crescent Ballroom last night was a haze of cigar smoke as Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta channeled their inner Perez Prado to dazzle an eager crowd with their unique brand of mambo. ... More >>

Luz de Vida Benefit Compilation Unites National Indie Acts and Tucson Bands

​Luz de Vida, a compilation featuring Neko Case, Spoon, Jimmy Eat World, Calexico, Giant Sand, Lenguas Largas, Robyn Hitchcock, Brian Lopez, The Meat Puppets, and many, many more, is set to see release in two formats, a 37-track digital album, and a limited-edition 12-song vinyl release, on Octobe ... More >>

Pickster One on RoQ'y TyRaid, Peachcake, and Boys and Frogs

Awal​Welcome to the latest installment of our weekly feature, Sound Off, where Jason P. Woodbury is joined by a different guest each week to listen to and discuss three tracks from local Phoenix artists. If you would like your songs to be considered for future Sound Off columns, please email m ... More >>

Arizona SXSW Schedule: Kinch, Marianne Dissard, Gospel Claws, Random, Sergio Mendoza

​What Arizona acts are showcasing or playing parties at the South by Southwest music industry showcase in Austin? Glad you asked. Here's a rundown of every show being played by Arizona acts during the week-long shindig.If you have any additions please hit me up on Twitter, @phxmusicdotcom.

Calexico's "Kimberpalooza" Show Will Be a Treat for Phoenix

Calexico's Joey Burns on Giffords, Upcoming Show at Corona Ranch

Joey Burns (left) is a big fan of Gabby Giffords. Giffords, in turn, is a big fan of his band, Calexico.​In 2008, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was given the chance to choose the "wake- up" music to roust her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly, and the rest of the crew slumbering above Earth a ... More >>

Incoming: Coheed and Cambria, Flosstradamus, Of Montreal, Rick Ross, Toad The Wet Sprocket

Toad The Wet Sprocket - bastion of the 1990s​Clubs editor Benjamin Leatherman describes this week's just announced shows thusly: "huge fucking week."Things are so fucking huge that Martin Cizmar went ahead and already announced the Janet Jackson show slated for this April -- yet there are still pl ... More >>

Mostly Bears to Play October 15 at Yucca Tap Room

​How much you enjoy Tucson's Mostly Bears depends on how high your tolerance for shirtless press photos, warbling falsetto vocals and anthemic indie-prog is. If the idea of Muse barn-storming with The Mars Volta sounds like something you could get down to, by all means, catch the band when they ta ... More >>

Painting by Cris Kirkwood, Signed Calexico and DeVotchKa Guitars, and More in Artists For Action Raffle

​Artists for Action, those plucky do-gooders counteracting Evil Mastermind Zach de la Rocha's attempts to make our state silent until SB 1070 is "repealed" (despite the fact that California's "eerily similar" Prop 187 was never repealed -- it just got stopped by a judge, the same way SB 1070 did) ... More >>

Artists for Action Voter Registration Concert and Rally at Marquee Theatre Last Night

​Artists For Action featuring Calexico w/ Miniature Tigers, Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta, Big Son featuring Sam Means of The Format and Jeff and Chris of Reubens Accomplice, Sand Rubies, Salvador Duran, Kinch, and more...August 27, 2010Marquee Theatre About 1,500 people showed up at the Marquee T ... More >>

Artists for Action

Incoming: Sergio Mendoza, The Morning Benders, The Like, Bloody Beetroots

​Are you someone who seeks out a costumed extravaganza with live music when Halloween rolls around?Perhaps something like a favorite band donning corny costumes just because Halloween is a few days away -- perhaps a venerable Arizona band like Jimmy Eat World wearing Little Bo Peep and wolf costum ... More >>

August 23 In Blogs: John Dougherty, Just Blaze, Wyclef Jean, Burger King, and Andrew Thomas

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Calexico, Miniature Tigers Play Free SB 1070 Show for Voters ($30 for People Who Will Not Promise to Vote)

​Are you interested in seeing Calexico, Miniature Tigers, Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta, Big Son (featuring Sam Means of The Format and Jeff and Chris of Reubens Accomplice), Sand Rubies, Kinch, and more for free?Yes?Are you sure?OK, you can, and all you have to do is pledge to vote on November 2. T ... More >>

Salvador Duran Gets Feature Treatment From Tucson Weekly

​Tucson's alt-weekly  -- which is in no way affiliated with New Times, despite what people seem to think -- has a really nice feature about Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta's Salvador Duran in this week's issue.Duran is the intense man in black who helps Sergio with singing duties and speaks mostl ... More >>

Flagstaff's Hullabaloo Will Have Bands, Costumes, Bikes and Hippies. LOTS of Hippies.

​Bad news, Phoenix: It will be 104 degrees today. If the heat is already starting to bother you, it's time to start planning weekend trips to the high country. July 10 is looking like a good day to drive up to Flagstaff for the Hullabaloo music festival. The name Hullabaloo makes it sound vaguely ... More >>

Concert Review: Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta

​I cannot claim to be an expert on -- or even a dedicated aficionado of -- Latin music. My Spanish skills, though purportedly honed by classes taken over three years in high school and another two semesters in college, are more suited to ordering food and drinks than following the dialog ... More >>

Do Not Miss Sergio Mendoza

The Wonders of Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta

Can You Learn To Mambo Before Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta Sunday?

Have we made any sort of big deal about Sunday's Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta show at The Rhythm Room? Just because we ran a preview under the headline "DO NOT MISS SERGIO MENDOZA" and one of our writers called them "The Most Important Band in Arizona" (a title I reserve for Dear and the Headlights - ... More >>

The Wonders of Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta and Hotel Congress

Calexico Classy at Heritage Square Concert

Luke HolwerdaCalexico's Joey Burns sings at the band's show Saturday at Heritage Square. See more shots in our Calexico slide show.There's one word that describes the Calexico concert at Heritage Square last night: Classy. From the tastefully-appointed stage, to the home-made tamales and high-end be ... More >>

Calexico Plug Into a Community of Sound and Style to Produce a Mutty Mix

Calexico Coming To Phoenix

Tuscon's Calexico is finally coming north. The band will play Heritage Square on Saturday, April 4, 2009.Not since December 2006 at the Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe has Tucson's biggest indie act headlined a show in the Valley. Calexico will be supporting their 2008 album, Carried to Dust, argu ... More >>